PR Backlog: Highly Requested PRs, Ready For Review, and more...

[Swivelgames]

As a one-man-show, I imagine @patrick96 has some difficulty keeping up with all of the activity in this repo. Many of the newest Issues and Pull Requests have had a tendency to cloud the important PRs that have been hanging out in the backlog for quite some time.

In the hopes of lending a hand, I went ahead and created a categorized list PRs.

Some of these PRs are 7 years old, but are still actively used by community members maintaining Frankenstein forks, that ultimately fragment the community around polybar.

I've categorized each of the PRs with the following labels:

Label	Assignee	Description
🔥 Hot		These PRs are highly requested by the community.
✅ Approved, Never Merged	polybar	PRs that have been approved, but were never released.
👀 Ready For Review	polybar	Awaiting Review or Re-Review
🆕 New PRs	polybar	Fresh PRs, ready to be reviewed
🚧 Changes Needed	Author	Changes were requested by the Polybar team. The owner of this PR should update it so that it can be reviewed again.
🆘 Help-Wanted	Author	These PRs need some love before they can be reviewed. Usually, these were close to being approved, but needed changes. Often times these need to be rebased due to their age.
⌛ Stale	Author	These PRs were either rejected or abandoned, and can probably be safely closed. They can always be reopened if they're still wanted or needed!

Stale PRs can probably be closed, and if they're still needed, can always be reopened later 👍

The hotly-anticipated PRs are ones that have been seemingly approved, ready to be merged, and/or have a decent level of community activity in them hoping for a merge.

Hot PRs Summary

Listed in chronological order.

• 🔥 🆘 Help-Wanted | feat(pulseaudio): port icons #1075
• 🔥 ✅ Approved, Never Merged | feat(pulseaudio): add headphones detection #1478
• 🔥 ✅ Approved, Never Merged | fix(pulse): Handle daemon restart #1590 (milestone 3.8.0 🎉 )
• 🔥 ✅ Approved, Never Merged | Add filesystem module mount labels #1214 #1668
• 🔥 🆘 Help-Wanted | Module: dwm #2151
• 🔥 🚧 Changes Needed | feat(pulseaudio): add support for source device #2486
• 🔥 👀 Ready For Review | Add hover actions #2868
• 🔥 🆘 Help-Wanted | Lua config #2959
• 🔥 👀 Ready For Review | feat(network): now supports ephemeral interfaces #2980
• 🔥 👀 Ready For Review | Adding options to display filesystem storage size output in a specific unit #3006

6-7 Years Old (2017 + 2018)

Many of these PRs were contributions by the late @Lomadriel, who departed Github nearly 3 years ago on Aug 6, 2020 🙇

• 🔥 Hot | feat(pulseaudio): port icons #1075
• 🔥 Hot | feat(pulseaudio): add headphones detection #1478
• ✅ Approved, Never Merged | Fix battery refresh when swapping power (issue #839 and #1181) #1306
• ✅ Approved, Never Merged | Improved handling for disconnected network interfaces in network module #1515

• 🆘 Help-Wanted | feat(xwindows): add pin-output and pin-show-last #1122
• ⌛ Stale | [WIP] - Add Unknown battery status #725
• ⌛ Stale | Add unknown battery status #1286
• ⌛ Stale | Plugin architecture for modules #1409
• ⌛ Stale | feat(script): add exec-else and format-else #1538

5 Years Old (2019)

• 🔥 Hot | fix(pulse): Handle daemon restart #1590 (milestone 3.8.0 🎉 )
• 🔥 Hot | Add filesystem module mount labels #1214 #1668
• ✅ Approved, Never Merged | Add custom ellipsis string #1195 #1673
• ✅ Approved, Never Merged | fix(modules): merge update and build mutexes to avoid concurrency issues #1790
• 👀 Ready For Review | Add padding support for progressbar drawtype #1947

• 🆘 Help-Wanted | fix(battery): current_state() reports discharging when battery reports "Full" #1574
• 🆘 Help-Wanted | Improves date module (label for alternative and timezone support) #1684
• 🆘 Help-Wanted | feat(ipc_module): interval for hooks. #1686
• 🆘 Help-Wanted | Add a whitelist for tokens #1704
• 🆘 Help-Wanted | feat(menu): Add option to keep menu open after executing command  #1768
• 🆘 Help-Wanted | feat(restacker): add a generic restacker #1809
• 🆘 Help-Wanted | Implement zero-indexed-font feature #1810
• 🆘 Help-Wanted | CPU Adapter #1963
• ⌛ Stale | font: Draw red rectangle for unmatched charachters #1687
• ⌛ Stale | Add support for min-width and max-width for each sub-token of percentage-cores #1696
• ⌛ Stale | add(i3): group by outputs #1779
• ⌛ Stale | Implement %active-hook% token for ipc module. #1852
• ⌛ Stale | Add: Multiple-time and recursive dereferencing of config parser. #1938

4 Years Old (2020)

• 🔥 Hot | Module: dwm #2151
• ✅ Approved, Never Merged | Handle disconnected interfaces more cleanly #2038
• 👀 Ready For Review | feat(i3, bspwm) Support prefix matching workspace names for icons #1998
• 👀 Ready For Review | Added support for {I} tag to draw image from file #2013
• 👀 Ready For Review | feat(i3): Add label for separator between outputs #2065
• 👀 Ready For Review | mpd module: added support for custom artist name if artist is empty #2076
• 👀 Ready For Review | feat(bspwm): Add dimmed monitor label #2104
• 👀 Ready For Review | Allow compilation and execution without composite extension enabled #2109
• 👀 Ready For Review | feat(net): use KiB/MiB/GiB instead of KB/MB/GB #2220
• 👀 Ready For Review | Add support to add pulseaudio source device on the bar #2238 (related: feat(pulseaudio): add support for source device #2486)

• 🆘 Help-Wanted | Allow viewing free memory via memory module #2037
• ⌛ Stale | #2156 - added support for glyphs #2157

3 Years Old (2021)

• 🔥 Hot | feat(pulseaudio): add support for source device #2486
• 🆘 Help-Wanted | fix(bspwm): Handle monitor names with illegal characters #2454
• 🆘 Help-Wanted | feat(i3): allow per monitor configuration #2515
• ⌛ Stale | feat(xworkspaces) Allow to show the nwin less #2386

2 Years Old (2022)

• 🔥 Hot | Add hover actions #2868
• 👀 Ready For Review | Make mpd hide itself when it finishes playing the queue #2645
• 👀 Ready For Review | fix: display invalid tags as they are instead of hiding them #2714
• 👀 Ready For Review | battery: auto-detect battery if none specified #2735
• 👀 Ready For Review | Feat/xwindow show all windows #2856

• 🚧 Changes Needed | i3 pin-workspaces behaviour for a named monitor output. #2797
• 🚧 Changes Needed | Regex support for interfaces in network module #2853
• 🚧 Changes Needed | feat(xworkspaces): Add option to disable scroll wrap #2858
• 🚧 Changes Needed | Update actions.rst #2881
• ⌛ Stale | fix(tag parser): use %% to get a literal percent sign (%) #2748

2023 + 2024 🎉

• 🔥 Hot | Lua config #2959
• 🔥 Hot | feat(network): now supports ephemeral interfaces #2980
• 🔥 Hot | Adding options to display filesystem storage size output in a specific unit #3006
• 👀 Ready For Review | Config value #3033
• 👀 Ready For Review | fix: don't restart if zero active screens are reported #3078
• 👀 Ready For Review | fix(render): Deal with incomplete wallpapers #3096

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• 🆕 New PRs | fix: reapply colors for padding after suffix #2898
• 🆕 New PRs | Add tests for config #2976
• 🆕 New PRs | feat(renderer): Add fixed-right config option #2985
• 🆕 New PRs | xworkspaces: Add enable-wraparound option #2999
• 🆕 New PRs | feat(network): Add option to change network unit type #3001
• 🆕 New PRs | feat(alsa): Add reverse-scroll option #3093
• 🆕 New PRs | feat(audio): Allow label-volume in muted format #3095
• 🆕 New PRs | fix(file_util::pick): ensure files are readable before picking them #3103
• 🆕 New PRs | fix(modules/battery): make rate positive if negative #3104
• 🆕 New PRs | allow for partial highlighting #3105
• 🆕 New PRs | add a muted ramp and bar to pulseaudio module #3108

[patrick96]

Thank you putting together this summary, I do really appreciate it (and sorry for ignoring your email).
Having two pages of pending github notifications can be quite overwhelming, so this should definitely help make this more manageable.

I have been struggling to keep up with any maintenance work in polybar.
Since I started working full-time, coding in my free time just isn't as fun anymore when I'm already doing it all day at work.
I also just have much less spare time on my hands, these days I'm only booting up my personal machine about once a week.

So, expect progress here to keep being pretty slow in the future and only more critical or sought-after things to get attention.
But I still have big plans for the project, they're just going to be happening at a slower pace than I'd like.

[Swivelgames]

I totally get it! I'm in a very similar position. First and foremost, I rarely ever check my personal email unless I'm grabbing a OTP code 😂 It can feel like a runaway train with two Issues or PRs being added to the project every time you finally close one of them. I hope things smooth out for you and projects like polybar become fun again. At least for me, it's an ebb and flow. There are some times I go weeks without turning on my personal machine, and other times that I spent most evenings working on side projects.

I think most all of us as developers are in a similar boat, so I wanted to try something helpful as a way to give back to a great project, and to show my appreciation. Hopefully the lists I produced above make it easier (and not harder) to go through and close some old PRs, prioritize others, and cut the number of PRs and Issues down by quite a bit so that it isn't as overwhelming. 🙂 👍